AI Match Summaries

One-line AI headline and voting-anomaly flags for every contest match, from a ChatGPT pass over the Board 8 wiki writeups (CC BY-SA 3.0). Machine-generated — may contain mistakes. The full narrative shows under each row (hide narratives).

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Filtered: entrant = Commander Shepard   — 8 of 1,514 matches   show all

8 matches

# Poll ▼ Contest Round Division Result Headline SFF LFF Rally Cheat Pic n
1 7332
writeup (md)
CB X Round 2 Division 8
Ryu 66.6%
Ryu overwhelms Shepard and exposes Mass Effect decline

Ryu crushed Commander Shepard and made Mass Effect's character decline look severe. The writeup treats Ryu's Smash exposure as part of a broader rise while Shepard never recovered old strength.

2 7299
writeup (md)
CB X Round 1 Division 8 Shepard survives King K. Rool after an early scare

Commander Shepard survived an unexpectedly strong King K. Rool challenge after trailing for much of the opening portion of the match. The writeup blames Mass Effect's decline and K. Rool's Smash boost for making the result far closer than expected.

3 5253
writeup (md)
CB IX Division Final Division 1
Draven 44.6%
Link 44.0%
Draven survives Link in a rally-fueled contest landmark 2

Draven built a huge rally-driven lead, Link mounted two enormous comeback pushes, and a lengthy site slowdown became the center of a bitter controversy before Draven survived. The writeup treats the match as one of the most consequential and divisive events in GameFAQs contest history.

Rally · Cheat: The writeup describes enormous organized rallies for both Draven and Link throughout the match. It also alleges obvious late vote stuffing from Link's side, while quoting SBAllen's analysis that found no evidence of massive systematic stuffing overall.

4 5226
writeup (md)
CB IX Round 2 Division 1
Tharja 18.8%
Shepard comes back and upsets Aeris

Aeris led for hours before Shepard erased the gap and then pulled away decisively, producing one of the contest's most satisfying upsets for Mass Effect fans. Tharja's presence and Final Fantasy VII anti-voting are discussed as background factors rather than formal anomalies.

5 5146
writeup (md)
CB IX Round 1 Division 1
Kain 16.5%
Shepard's easy win turns into a FemShep voice-acting rant †OT

After noting Shepard's easy win and Olimar's expected second-place finish, the writeup mostly becomes an extended argument about why FemShep's voice performance is superior.

6 3819
writeup (md)
CB VIII Round 2 Gear
Pikachu 61.0%
Shepard's Mass Effect 2 boost survives a Pikachu test

Pikachu won without the dramatic daytime surge often associated with Pokémon, while Shepard continued his enormous improvement after Mass Effect 2. The writeup treats Shepard's respectable loss as one of the more impressive growth stories in the field.

7 3781
writeup (md)
CB VIII Round 1 Gear
Ellis 24.2%
Shepard looks newly legitimate against weak opposition

Commander Shepard crushed Ellis shortly after Mass Effect 2's release and looked much more credible than in his earlier contest appearances. The writeup treats Ellis as obvious fodder and Shepard as a newly legitimate entrant.

8 3272
writeup (md)
CB VII Round 1 Division 8
Sandbag 25.0%
Magus 24.8%
Sandbag rallies past Magus for a major joke upset 1

Sonic won comfortably, but Sandbag's comeback against Magus supplied the real drama. The upset confirmed both Magus's long-running reputation for disappointing and the continuing power of joke entrants.

Rally: The writeup says Sandbag's comeback went beyond a normal daytime trend and identifies a rally as the reason the joke entrant surged past Magus.

What this is

Each row's Headline and (on filter) narrative come from a ChatGPT reading of that match's Board 8 wiki writeup. The five flags (SFF same-fanbase factor, LFF low-fanbase factor, Rally outside rally, Cheat cheating alleged, Pic match-picture factor) are set only when the writeup asserts that effect — never inferred from the numbers. Hover a check for the note. †OT marks a writeup that mostly wanders off the match.

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